The U.S. Department of Labor is giving an Illinois group $1.4 million to provide job training and other services to migrant farmworkers.The department said Wednesday the money will go to the Illinois Migrant Council.

Some nurses on Chicago’s Northwest Side have begun two days of voting in a closely watched union election.Since 2002, Council 31 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees has been trying to organize thousands of employees at Resurrection Health Care, a nonprofit Roman Catho

Chicago's mayor and thousands of city union workers are staring down a Thursday deadline to come up with an agreement that could save the city tens of millions of dollars.Former Chicago Mayor Richard Daley's administration banked on $32 million in labor concessions to help balance the 2011 budget.

State officials say unemployment in all 12 Illinois metro areas dropped in May, and all but three of those regions added jobs or were unchanged. The Illinois Department of Employment Security put out its monthly metro and county-level unemployment stats today.